Nautique to sponsor Asian water skiing tournament

Nautique announced it will exclusively tow the 2011 IWWF Asian Waterski & Wakeboard Championships, which will be held Oct. 5-9 in Putrajaya, Malaysia.

The Ski Nautique 200 Open Bow and the Super Air Nautique 210 will be the exclusive towboats for the 2011 Nautique International Waterski & Wakeboard Federation Asian Waterski & Wakeboard Championships.

“We are extremely excited to support the Asian Waterski and Wakeboard Championships,” Nautique president/CEO Bill Yeargin said in a statement. “Both waterskiing and wakeboarding are growing in Asia, and we are happy that the continent's best athletes will be able to compete behind the world’s best boats.”

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